Three sides live

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Paperlate paperlate



Paperlate, oh I'm sorry but there is no one on the line

Paperlate, oh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news



Ooh it's too easy to live like clockwork

Tick tock watching the world go by

Any change would take too long

So dry your eyes

Ooh it's too easy to live in a cold sweat

Just sitting dripping in pools below

You can wipe your face

Kill the pain

But the fever won't go, no no



Paperlate

Pull it together now

Put your feet back on the ground

Paperlate

Ooh don't worry now

You're not alone

Look around you 

Paperlate

Ooh I'm sorry but there's no one on the line

Paperlate

Ooh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news



Ooh it's too easy to compute your future

Taking no risks and playing too safe

Any change would take too long

So dry your eyes

Ooh it's too easy to talk about rocking the boat

Making changes and changing track

But you'd better not lock that door

Cos you'll be coming back



Ah you're breathing faster

Silence the only sound

There's no need to be nice on the way up

Cos you're not coming down



Paperlate paperlate

Paperlate paperlate

Paperlate paperlate

Paperlate paperlate



Paperlate

Ooh I'm sorry but there's no one on the line

Paperlate

Oh I'm sorry but rest easy no news is good news...

What was it you said to me

Back in the days when things looked fine 

'bout how we would be together 

Until we left the earth behind 

Oh, it's funny how things can change

Cos there was a time I thought I'd be the one 

Who'd leave and start again 

But now I'd stay forever 



Ooh my hopes are as the leaves upon the water

Just sunk in the night

And though I know you couldn't care, you oughtta

Ah, the end of a life

Or maybe when you're older, and you're thinking back

You might recall

Now did I act carefully, did I do right?

Or were we meant to be, all of our lives

In love and harmony, all of our lives?



So now, take my hand

Come, hold me closely

As near as you can

Believing all that we could be

And all that we have been

And all that we are



Everyday seems summertime 

The river flow with wine 

Ooh when you were here with me 

I wish we'd stayed that way forever 



Oh my hopes are as the leaves upon the water

Just sunk in the night

And though I know you couldn't care, you oughtta

Ah, the end of a life

Or maybe when you're older, and you're thinking back

Well you might recall

Now did I act carefully, did I do right?

Or were we meant to be, all of our lives

In love and harmony, all of our lives?



So now, take my hand

Come, hold me closely

As near as you can

Believing all that we could be

And all that we have been

And all that we are



Oh my hopes were as the leaves upon the water

Ah, sunk in the night

And though I know you couldn't care, you oughtta

Oh, the end of a life

And maybe when you're older, and you're thinking back

Oh, you might recall

Now did I act carefully, did I do right?

Or were we meant to be, all of our lives

In love and harmony, all of our lives?



So now, take my hand

Come, hold me closely

As near as you can

Believing all that we could be

And all that we have been

And all that we are

Ma would never say what happened

And we knew better than push too hard

We knew we had all the chores to tend to

Like fixing fences and helping her

Washing dishes and making coffee

Me and Virgil'd chop some wood

But we'd stop our swinging

Just to listen to her crying

It didn't sound too good

I can remember, too well



But we never thought to pay much heed

We learned to live life the best we could

But then one day pa upped and left us

High and dry without a word

Seemed a pity

My ma was pretty

But I soon learned life ain't that way

And I can remember hearing her weeping

While we were sleeping next to her



I can remember 

I'll never forgive and I'll never forget

Cos pa you broke her heart

Ooh pa you broke her heart

You broke her heart

Ooh pa you broke her heart



Well the years rolled by

And 'fore we knew it

Our sister got married and moved out west

I stayed with ma, cos I couldn't desert her

I knew it would hurt her to be alone

So we pulled tighter

We said we'd try to make things easy

And raise a smile

But as the night came

We'd hear her crying

Praying for pa to come back again



I can remember

I'll never forgive him and I'll never forget

Cos pa you broke her heart

Oh pa you broke her heart



And then the winter came

I'd never known it colder

Ooh it seemed the worst for years

And the night she died I swear I saw her smiling

Saying I was a big boy now, no tears



So I packed up all we had, and Virgil got the horses

And we paid our last respects and gave the whip a crack

Ooh, seemed a big bad world, we were riding into

Me and Virgil both agreed, we best head off

And don't look back



Nothing but desert all around

Oh it made me wonder

Lord it's hard to carry on

When you're sick with hunger



Weeks and months of sleeping rough

Keeping clear of danger

Seems we were miles from anywhere

And too far gone to change it

We'd best keep going, don't look back



Well me and Virgil we beat the desert

Riding fast and riding hard

We hit the city, the past behind us

So we raised some hell, we had some fun

But real soon I met a lady oh so pretty, and oh so fine

'fore too long I found myself married

With a home of my own and a blue eyed son

And 'til this day I can hear ma saying to me -

"You're a big boy now"

The girl from all those songs

Who made everything feel right

She came in like an angel, into your lonely life

And filling your world with light

Oh, and everybody told you "you're oh so lucky"



Curtains part revealing a country scene

Clothed in green and brown

Evidence of autumn

And recent rain

On a winding lane, a byway

Walking on that road is a certain girl

In all the world the one

Guaranteed to move you and turn your head

When all's been said and done



The girl from all those songs

Who made everything feel right

She came in like an angel, into your lonely life

And filling your world with light

Oh, and everybody told you "you're oh so lucky"



The night is clear but cool

Ooh maybe dawn is breaking as you turn to find her gone

Then you see the note

Ooh you cannot believe it

And you think you'll go insane...



But that was many years ago

And though the pain is dim

A something still remains

Though you hardly can recall

Her face or form

Her memory lingers on

Ooh she made everything feel right

She came in like an angel (in like an angel),

Into your lonely life (into your life)

And filling your world with light

Oh and everybody told you "you're oh so lucky"

I see your smiling face, by the open door

There's the morning light

Shining in your hair, and in your eyes



And just a little way behind that smile of yours

I see another one, oh so far away

If only for one second, I could hold you close to me

When the Master calls for me again

There's nothing I can say, or I can do



Goodbye, my love

Time has come to say farewell

I hear the call again

Goodbye to the world

I've sheltered for so long

Oh there's so much my love, that I can never say



And in a little while, in a little while

There's nothing left to see



As the years go by and I have not returned

And the night has come, falling all around

Ooh if you count the stars you'll know

How many have gone out

And when the Master calls for me again

There's nothing that I can say

Or I can do



Stand in the sun

Shut your eyes and feel the world

It's changing every day

Goodbye my love

Each day will seem so long

Ooh there's so much I feel, that I can never say



I can't see you

I can't feel you anymore

I've just a memory of that open door